A*bel"i*an (#), A"bel*ite (#), Abel*o"ni*an (#), n. Eccl. Hist.
One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
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